These types of questions have been asked before; it looks pretty standard, but the best person to ask would be the author
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cmhughesNov 2 '12 at 16:56

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@cmhughes in my humble opinion, the style for chapter and section headers is not pretty standard; it is easily achieved (using titlesec, for example), but still I would consider this as a valid question, so I voted to reopen it.
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Gonzalo MedinaNov 2 '12 at 18:40

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@GonzaloMedina ok, sounds good :) perhaps you could work with the OP to narrow the scope of the question and make it more specific- mine was the final vote, not the first :)
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cmhughesNov 2 '12 at 18:50

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Also it should not depend so much on the referenced PDF being still available.
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Stephan LehmkeNov 2 '12 at 18:56

Well you can always wait for Gonzalos answer and then retroactively add examples to your question ;-)
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Stephan LehmkeNov 2 '12 at 19:05

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The formatting for the sectional units can be achieved using the titlesec package; the headers can be obtained using the fancyhdr package; the lettrine for the first letter of each chapter can be produced with the \lettrine command from the lettrine package. A little example: